AUGUST INTRO LOG: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

[asgardmods]

Who: EVERYONE
What: the August intro log and first god house competition, More Than Meets the Eye
When: August 8
Where: Gladsheim Palace for breakfast, around Asgard for the game/curse
Rating: PG-13; please take anything higher than this to a private log!

morning: a warm invitation

Everyone wakes up to a friendly invitation to breakfast at the castle with the gods. For most of you, this comes as a message on your bracelet, reading:

Join us at the castle today to welcome some new Wanderers into our midst. Breakfast will be served and a lively game will be available to all of our guests, both new and old.

New Wanderers are curious on their own, and this is the first there's ever been mention of a game. Perhaps it's enough for you to make the trek to the castle, to see what all the fuss is about, or maybe even to see if there's someone you know. Perhaps you want to learn more about the game, or maybe you just want the food.

For our new guests, this comes as a bit more of a surprise. Wherever you were before in your world, without even realizing it, you wake up in a strange new place. No time or space inbetween, just an awareness of There and then Here. A matronly figure tries to explain your circumstances with a sympathetic smile, but ultimately invites you meet them all for yourselves: the Gods of Asgard, and the Wanderers that arrived before you.



The sight that greets you on the castle grounds is a rather festive one, regardless of where you're coming from. Colorful streamers and flags are draped above large tables with room for several guests. Natives bustle about, cheerfully offering food and drinks to anyone that wants some. Everyone is welcomed to mingle and greet the new Wanderers on this bright summer morning.

the game: a friendly competition

Among the brightly decorated tables are ones highlighted in a specific color for a specific god house, and most of the gods themselves can be found sitting behind it with a few of their district's natives. They are here to welcome the new Wanderers into Asgard - but they're also here to explain the rules of today's game. There are coins hidden throughout the city and disguised as mundane items, and the god house that returns the most of their coins will win an upgrade to their god housing! No hints will be given, but the natives are excited to help facilitate the activity and happily invite you to wander through their districts to find what you can.

But you don't have to know about the rules to be playing the game! The coins are already hidden throughout the city, and no one knows what they are until they've been picked up. Whether you're banding together with friends to find as many coins as you can or blindly stumbling over an unpleasant surprise, the game and the curse are in full swing!

evening: a fair prize

At sundown, all of the coins in the city disappear at once, whether they're in your pocket or still disguised as a bowl. Points will be tallied and a winner will be announced (OOCly, on August 17) - but Asgardians are keen to celebrate regardless of who wins a rather inconsequential game. The same colorful display of tables and chairs is still spread across the castle grounds, although now they twinkle with fairy lights haphazardly blinking throughout the air. Snacks and drinks are made available, as well as more dinner-shaped meals for those that request it. Mostly the natives simply want to bask in the strangeness of these Wanderers from other worlds for a moment longer - but they're also eagerly listening to any stories from the day's mischievous game. Relax, enjoy yourself, or again, just stock up on some freely served food. Whatever suits your needs today. Welcome to Asgard, dear Wanderers.

[ OOC NOTE: This is the intro log for August, as well as our first god house competition/curse: More Than Meets the Eye. You are free to play with the curse prompts and searching the city in any way you want! If you would like to submit a map to earn points for your god house, please check out the rules to learn what to do. We will accept maps until August 17, at which point a winner will be announced and members of that god house will be allowed to vote for an upgrade to their god housing. As always, please let us know if you have any questions or need any help on the mod contact page. Enjoy, friends! ]

Comments

[keybearing]

Ah, really? Yeah, I guess that's....better than something happening to him here.

[Even if as far as Sora is concerned, he still has to figure helping Roxas. But that would come. Hopefully. At the least, he is relieved to hear that much. He's not even really that worried on how much she might be able to help with the coins or not, in the face of it.]

Ah, so. Ready to go treasure hunting?

[mindseer]

Absolutely. That's enough of that talk, though I need to tell Xion next time I see her. Lead the way!

[She was right up there on his heels as soon as he got started, following along and unconcerned with what kind of stupidity she was about to cause, because she was bound to find a lot of the wrong coins this way.

...or nothing. Nothing was possible too.]

[keybearing]

Right!

[Because he knows the others would want to know too. If they hadn't already figured that Roxas was sent back home. Sora isn't sure how he feels on that. But he is glad if Roxas is back home and himself again and all, at least.

And he tries to focus on the task at hand. In leading the way to start to try find these coins. And given they were disguised that did make things a little more difficult. Especially when he might not be sure which is one and which isn't. Or which might be for Heimdall or not.]

[mindseer]

[Oddly enough? It didn't make her any less useful than she already was. It just meant that she wasn't going to see a found coin until she actually had it in her hand, so 'other faction' coins were going to be a lot easier to find.

She went right u ahead of him to start rifling through some of the junk her cane bumped into in an ally, getting down on her knees while she hunted around. Suddenly, her face lit up and she raised her hand in triumph as she held a used food wrapper in her hand, already turning into a coin that... was definitely not Heimdall, or Mimir, right before it disappeared.]

I got one! ...hey! What gives?!? Jip!

[Here it comes...]

[keybearing]

Hm? Wha -- wait, which....?

[Which house was that, he was about to ask, before it disappears. He isn't sure if that might be a good thing or not, given he has yet to find any himself. Which is why he pauses, blinking as he glances to her from where he had been searching at her speaking up like that.]

Which house was that? Is it supposed to disappear?

[mindseer]

Don't think it was Mimir or Heimdall at all...

[She could feel Honir's coin taking hold of her and she moved up, hands waving around until she could feel his shoulder get smacked and she grabbed on, grinning as she leaned in way too close and bobbed her head vigorously.]

You know what really gets my blood pusher going? What I could really go for right now! Court Room Drama. Especially the life or death kind with a real hanging judge!

[...where the fuck had that come from? It wasn't wrong, but it was really out of place.]

[keybearing]

Court? What hanging judge?

[He was going to ask which she thought the coin was associated with but that seems insignificant with the sudden talk of court and hangings. So of course Sora is confused and maybe a little concerned. He frowns, before raising an eyebrow in confusion, pausing in his own search for what might be the coins.]

[mindseer]

[She frowned too and her head turned to where the coin had been. Her lips turned down and she pulled her blindfold up, giving a look around. Where'd it go? That was ... weird.]

Huh? Oh... I just had an urge to ... it was weird. One of my hobbies is court room dramas? So I love it, especially when it's high stakes. That's all. Don't even think we have judges here.

You see where my coin went?

[keybearing]

Court room dramas? I have no idea if this place has Judges, but if there are I'd hope they aren't like Frollo.

[Because that guy was sure something. Still, Sora can't help but to be a little confused with her randomly blurting that out. That urge. He's not sure yet what to make of it, if it had something to do with the coin.]

I'm not sure. I think it just....disappeared? I was more confused with what you said.

[mindseer]

Nope, it doesn't have judges, legislacerators, magistrates, bailiffs, grand poobahs, head mugwumps or anything. But it also doesn't really have criminals, ne'er do wells, assassins, scumbags or the like, so it doesn't need 'em, yet. I've been itching to get ready for a while.

What about this Frollo gobble-beast? What's he like?

[Pause. Coin. Right... That was sort of important.]

Uh, right... so I think the coins are cursed. If it's not Mimir when I pick it up it makes me do something or say something stupid. I guess... in my case it was a hobby of mine, which is law?

I know, totally out of the blue.

[keybearing]

Huh? But ah, he's...not a gobble beast? Just a normal human. But he's kind of awful to most of the people, at least that I noticed.

[Given the situation, Sora is more easily distracted from talk of Frollo with the coins being cursed apparently?]

Wha -- cursed? But how do we know if it is from our house?

[As far as curses go, blurting out hobbies or interests isn't so bad? But still.]

[mindseer]

Oh sorry. Humans call them turkeys. I hear it was a mean thing to call one. You know, gobble gobble? [She snickered.] A lot of judges are pretty rough with the local populace though. That's not unusual, but was there anything special about it?

[She considered that for a moment. How did they know? How did they... oh that was obvious!]

We grab the coin and it doesn't disappear and we don't do anything stupid, of course!

[keybearing]

....Turkeys? I think you mean chickens? Like, calling someone a chicken means they are scared.

[Sora says, tilting his head in confusion a bit. Because....well, she kind of got it right in some ways but the wrong bird. Close enough though he supposes. The focus and priority is obviously on the coins.]

I guess that might be it. I hadn't found one yet myself to know for sure.

[mindseer]

Oh yeah. You call someone a cluck beast if they're scared. But no, I know people who call someone that's pathetic and stupid a turkey is all. People like to call folks animals a lot when they're insulting them, don't they?

[But yeah, close enough. Cluck beast, gobble beast. Either way they were bad.]

You wanna keep looking? Maybe we can get you to do something silly? Let's just not take it seriously, ok?

[keybearing]

I guess.....

[She isn't wrong? Calling someone a pig isn't necessarily a good thing either, for example. Sora never really thought on that, with insults being to call people animals.]

Me? That...well. We are supposed to find them. We can just try avoid the ones that aren't for our house. There's got to be a trick, or some way to tell?

[mindseer]

I'm not entirely sure about that, but we can tr...

....

You're thinking I should totally take the blindfold off for this part of things, aren't you?

[No shit, sherlock.]

[keybearing]

Well...it'd help? I mean, you could help look for the coins better without it, right?

[Look. He knows she is not actually blind. So she doesn't actually need to blindfold. So at this point when they are supposed to be looking for something, yeah, he figures she can go without and help more.]

[mindseer]

[Grunt. Grunt. Fidget. Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine.

She pulled it off and stuffed it in her pocket, right before giving him a stuck out tongue and a wink. Ok, she could at the very least blink out the sunlight and see what coin she found erroneously. But, hey she was trying at least.]

Suuuuuch a slave driver, making me actually look at things, eheh.

[keybearing]

Oh, the worst. I know.

[But he laughs, smiling and nudging at her a bit in showing he was just joking about being a slave driver. He just wants to get them both a better chance to find as many of the coins as they could! They continue on in still looking, Sora blinking and tilting his head before grinning excitedly.]

I think I found one!

[And reaching to grab it, blinking when it just disappears....]

[mindseer]

[She watched as he'd grabbed it. not her color, not his. Nope, they were in for some shenanigans again, weren't they? She snickered and put her hands behind her back while she grinned over at Sora in her usual impish way.]

Oh, this oughta be good for a laugh. What'd you get?

(OOC: Feel free to pick any of them you want. Truth or dare)

[keybearing]

[Well, Sora isn't sure on the specific House. Not that that seems to matter, given he answers instead by blurting out:]

I really look up to Riku!

[....As if that sort of thing wasn't obvious already by the way he talks about his friends all the time anyway. ]

He's really strong, and he's come so far, trying so hard to make up for his mistakes.

[mindseer]

... hah.

[She shook her head and grinned over at him, winking as she did and showing a mouthful of fangs in the process.]

Maaaan, what do you wanna bet all of these basically make us say something kinda embarrassing we didn't expect to say?

[Terezi, yours was way more out of this world than his. Of course, your world...]

[keybearing]

I don't know. It might do other stuff? Depending on the House? I don't know, but I still want to try win.

[He admitted that to Riku at least. And well to most anyone else that is probably just obvious if they saw the two together at any point. That the two cared about each other and admired each other a lot.]

[mindseer]

Hey, I'm down for winning one way or another, so we can deal with a little bit of frustration and stuff. I mean, seriously, what's the worst that can happen in this case Sora?

[And she was already starting to rifle through stuff, as if intent on proving that point. After all, honestly? It had been pretty tame so far.]

(OOC: But in this case I'm so in the 'hit me with your best shot' category depending on your urges.)

[keybearing]

I don't know. We've only found a couple of them and they were probably the wrong House, but there's more than two of them.

[Still, he continues, exploring and keeping an eye out for more coins. Which means of course than when he finds another one, he picks it up to show her and it is Tyr's. Which leads him to feel an urge to hug her for some reason.

Which may or may not be awkward for both of them at least a bit. As he blinks when it again disappears and approaches her with outstretched arms.]